A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . on. If, therefore, the standard of Penn and hisfriends has not, even after two centuries, beenreached in every particular, enough has been ac-complished to show not only its abstract right-eousness, but also its availability to practical gov-ernment. Some of the principles we have builtinto our political edifice, and we cease to questiontheir place there. To some we do the homage ofasserting their applicability to the purer condi-tions of the future, too timid to do what we knowto be right, and set them to work now with con-fidence in their inhe
A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania . on. If, therefore, the standard of Penn and hisfriends has not, even after two centuries, beenreached in every particular, enough has been ac-complished to show not only its abstract right-eousness, but also its availability to practical gov-ernment. Some of the principles we have builtinto our political edifice, and we cease to questiontheir place there. To some we do the homage ofasserting their applicability to the purer condi-tions of the future, too timid to do what we knowto be right, and set them to work now with con-fidence in their inherent vitality. We forgetthat truth makes its own way if given a chance,and that out of our failures often come the suc-cesses of the future. These successes will neverbe produced by waiting for better circumstances. Preface to the Haverford Edition. sxxi but they are brought on by Holy Experiments,?where with faith and courage right principles areset to work in the midst of a scoffing and perversegeneration. I. S. Haverford College, Pa., PKEFACE. It is not at all unlikely that this contribution tothe early history of Pennsylvania will show a biastowards the habits of thought and action whichhave characterized the religion of the ancestors ofthe writer. If so it is unintentional. The purpose of the book is to include, withother sources of information, the contemporaryQuaker view. This has been gained by a carefulexamination of Meeting Records and private let-ters of the times, and a fairly intimate personalacquaintance with many who probably repre-sent, in this generation, in their mental and moralcharacteristics, the Quaker Governing Class of the first century of the Province. The ordinary public sources of informationhave, of course, been used; but a dependence onthese alone would incur the danger, if not of mis-representing facts, at the best of giving them awrong coloring. While the general ideas of Quakerism wereworked out in Penns Prame of G-ovemment theywere not ful
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